Sunday Poster Session
Category: Colon
Luis M. Nieto, MD
WellStar Health System-Cobb Medical Center
Morgantown, WV
Table 1. General characteristics of patients with Ischemic Colitis | |||
| Ischemic Colitis in Adults without Obesity | Ischemic Colitis in Adults with Obesity | P value |
Patient characteristics (%) | |||
No. of patients | 88,887 | 18,114 |
|
Female (%) | 73.1 | 73.2 | 0.96 |
Mean age, years | 70.7 | 65.7 | < 0.01 |
Admission characteristics (%) | |||
Weekend | 27.7 | 28.6 | 0.68 |
Race (%) | |||
White | 83.1 | 82.3 | 0.07 |
African American | 6.7 | 7.9 | |
Hispanic | 5.6 | 7.4 | |
Asian | 2.6 | 0.8 | |
Native American | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
Other | 1.5 | 1.0 | |
Charlson Comorbidity index score (%) | |||
0 | 30.5 | 26.6 |
< 0.01 |
1 | 25.2 | 20.2 | |
2 | 17.4 | 17.9 | |
≥ 3 | 26.9 | 35.3 | |
Median annual income in patient’s zip code, US$ (%) | |||
0 to 25th percentile | 23.2 | 25.1 | 0.34 |
26 to 50th percentile | 27.1 | 26.1 | |
51 to 75th percentile | 26.3 | 28.5 | |
76 to 100th percentile | 23.4 | 20.3 | |
Insurance type, (%) | |||
Medicare | 72.7 | 66.1 |
< 0.01 |
Medicaid | 5.9 | 9.9 | |
Private | 19.7 | 23.3 | |
Self-pay | 1.7 | 0.7 | |
Hospital Region (%) | |||
Northeast | 21.9 | 19.8 |
0.01 |
Midwest | 25.1 | 31.7 | |
South | 35.8 | 30.9 | |
West | 17.1 | 17.7 | |
Hospital bed size (%) | |||
Small | 22.1 | 20.9 |
0.77 |
Medium | 31.5 | 31.1 | |
Large | 46.3 | 47.9 | |
Hospital Location (%) | |||
Rural | 10.1 | 10.3 | 0.89 |
Urban | 89.8 | 89.7 | |
Teaching status (%) | |||
Non- teaching | 36.6 | 37.6 | 0.68 |
Teaching | 63.4 | 62.4 | |
Patient comorbidities (%) | |||
DM2 | 22.9 | 39.5 | < 0.01 |
Alcohol abuse | 2.2 | 3.0 | 0.30 |
History of smoking | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.23 |
Cannabis | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.31 |
Opioid abuse | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.38 |
Malnutrition | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.01 |
HIV | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.68 |
Vit D deficiency | 1.4 | 2.4 | 0.09 |
Inpatient complications (%) | |||
Mechanical Ventilation | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.22 |
Acute kidney injury | 22.6 | 25.8 | 0.11 |
Parenteral Nutrition | 2.3 | 2.0 | 0.65 |
Ileus | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.83 |
In-patient procedure (%) | |||
Colonoscopy | 44.9 | 51.6 | < 0.01 |
Colonoscopy with procedure | 40.0 | 46.6 | < 0.01 |
Colectomy | 6.9 | 7.7 | 0.52 |
Health-care related usage | |||
Length of stay (days), mean | 5.4 | 5.9 | 0.09 |
Charges ($), mean | 57,960.33 | 62,985.9 | 0.31 |
Costs ($), mean | 14,334.94 | 16,459.6 | 0.09 |